Sometimes, it is necessary to tell the story of how something developed in order to better explain where we want to take it and why. This story actually began in April of 2015, when Bishop Mugenyi William Bahemuka stayed in our home as our guest. He is the Bishop of Boga of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He has a small physical presence but an immense social and spiritual one. As we drove the streets of Winter Springs, Florida, he kept asking me, “Where are all of t

In a previous post, A Way Forward, I spoke about the need for the crowd to see the “us” and not the “them” in the debates, crises and politics surrounding us. It was theoretical at the time, with little tangible actions we could take. It was a seed that required water and months of germination to take sprout. Now, as it bursts forth from the ground and as excited as I am to see the green shoots among brown dirt, the little sproutling seems powerless against the darkened skies